We did it Lemmy!
Perhaps this is a dark thought... but I'm wondering what the future Lemmy equivalents to "We did it Reddit!" or "Thanks for the gold kind stranger!" will be.
It seems like something cliche or corny always springs up, like it's unavoidable.
Lemmy stop you right there.
Honestly, I'm sure that joke is going to get extremely old as time wears on, but right now I always chuckle. Creepy stories is c/lemmyscareyou now. Adorable.
“Thanks for the gold kind stranger!”
That line made me cringe everytime I saw it.
Literally was given gold on Apollos goodbye post after I thanks Christian and said fuck u/Spez. I had to edit it and tell people to stop spending money on gold. It defeats the fucking purpose.
I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.
Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.
Many people had coins/points left over from back when they were giving them out for free. I gave my last free gold to people who suggested kbin as a matter of fact
Why are so many people rushing to turn Lemmy into the next Reddit?
Lemmy is strongly inspired by reddit. So it shouldn't be too unexpected that a culture similar to that of the reddit community will develop here.
Same thing with the various Twitter migrations where they kept trying to turn Mastodon/ Calckey into the new Twitter. I think people like familiarity.
"I don't mean to spez, but I don't agree..." (I'm not trying to be an asshole, but...)
"Lemmy say..." (my opinion is...)
"And L'Emmy for best performance goes to..." (praise a good comment)
"Let me provide a cool glass of Lemmy-aid for you." (I'm giving a friendly bit of unsolicited advice.)
"Quite the CaLemmyTea!" (A big disagreement or negative event (catastrophe) that ended in a surprisingly civil way (like over a good cup of tea.))
I hope that's the worst that happens to Lemmy. My worry is that it slowly dies off after it doesn't grow enough to keep people interested.
Please, no. Can we have a little decorum here?
Lemmy is only barely getting started. It's way to early to try talk about what annoying over used phrases will plague the platform.
Random thought related to gold, but I wonder if it would be feasible to make some kind of fediverse tipping system that allowed people to give tips that showed up as something gold-like or award-like. Could be neat, but validating the payment when multiple instances are involved could be challenging without getting instances involved with payment gateways and finance regulations. I'm sure it could be done with crypto but that would probably be offputting to most people.
Could be a thing for individual instances. Broadly not Lemmy wide, can't wait for the first stupid Internet drama here.
One month into my home instance’s existence (lemmy.world) and we’ve already had our inaugural hack and a few technical growing pains that broke several mobile apps for days
I have thought about, what if we set up a similar gold system that donated money to the Lemmy software, and the instance owner to help cover costs? I'm sure we'd collectively ruin it though.
A federated gold system would be difficult because we would need a way to stop an activitypub server from sending fake gold
Nostr have a adopted a system for this. It would be cool to integrate the Lightning Network into Lemmy as well!